ASEL's mission is to facilitate greater opportunities for individuals with
disabilities through comprehensive assistive technology research,outreach, and information programs.
The overarching goal is to support people with disabilities as they pursue
their educational, vocational, and independent living goals.

The staff of ASEL brings expertise from a wide range of disciplines. Senior
ASEL staff hold faculty appointments in Computer and Information Science,
Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Educational Studies, Linguistics,
and Physical Education at the University of Delaware and Delaware State
University. Faculty and graduate students from these departments are active
participants in ASEL research projects. These projects also find collaborators
among A. I. duPont Institute Hospital for Children departments of Rehabilitation
Medicine, Neurology, and Orthopedics.

ASEL operate a 12,000 sq. ft. research facility at the the duPont
Hospital for Children. Research is supported by a centralized computer network
that includes Sun Microsystems workstations, microcomputers (486, Pentium,
and Macintosh), and Silicon Graphics Indigo, Indy, and Crimson graphics
workstations.

Specialized laboratories include a speech processing facility with a sound
booth and audio recording and digital signal processing equipment, a robotics
laboratory with a number of six degree of freedom manipulators, as well
as several force-reflecting input systems, a gesture laboratory with a pair
of Cybergloves and Ascension position and orientation sensors, and a natural
language laboratory with graphics processing and virtual reality equipment.

ASEL is located on the grounds of the duPont Hospital for Children
in Wilmington, Delaware. ASEL is justs 20 miles south of the Philadelphia
International Airport and 60 miles north of Baltimore, Maryland, via Interstate
95.